c. o.
in any further communication
on the subject, please quote
No. 27081/14.
and address ——
The Under-Secretary of StaGO,
Foreign Office,
Loudon.
Sir:-
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REC (RecrON JA
July 1st, 1914.
With reference to your letter of the 6th ultimo
relative to the financial arrangements for the redemp-
tion of the Canton Notes, I am directed by Secretary
Sir E. Grey to inform you that he has been in tele-
graphic communication with His Majesty's Minister at
Peking on the subject of the desire of the Governor of
Hongkong to secure the exclusive appointment of a
British subject to control the note redemption.
Sir J. Jordan states as you will see from his
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telegram that it has been arranged that the Managers of
the three groups at Canton will act as foreign delegate
in rotation and that the cashiers appointed are both
British subjects.
In view of the fact that the funds which are to
redemption are international,
be employed for the note
Sir E. Grey is of opinion that a further measure of
control by British subjects than that agreed to cannot
e Under Secretary of State,
Colonial Office.
be
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